Daily Archives: August 13, 2012

Salesforce.com: We Have 150K Chatter Users Chatter And Are Opening It To Everyone (CRM)

August 13, 2012
Salesforce.com: We Have 150K Chatter Users Chatter And Are Opening It To Everyone (CRM)

Skype Doug Bewsher left Skype for Salesforce.com See Also Inside Facebook’s Plan To Revolutionize The Entire Hardware Industry Why Adding Marc Benioff Is A Brilliant Decision From Cisco Marc Benioff, Lars Dalgaard, and David Sacks Are About To Do Battle, Says VC Who Backed Them All Salesforce.com just revamped its two-year-old chat tool, Chatter,...

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CakeStyle Raises $1M To Bring Handpicked Women’s Fashion To Your Doorstep

August 13, 2012
CakeStyle Raises $1M To Bring Handpicked Women’s Fashion To Your Doorstep

CakeStyle, a startup that delivers stylist-curated shipments of women’s fashion, announced that it has raised $1 million in seed funding. Yes, CakeStyle is yet part of the growing wave of “subscribe to Box X” businesses, but with a personal touch. The company asks customers to provide “some basic information about what you currently wear,...

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CloudFlare Helps Save Wikileaks’ Bacon

August 13, 2012
CloudFlare Helps Save Wikileaks’ Bacon

Wikileaks‘ website is up again after over a week of denial of service attacks, though as of this writing I’m still seeing errors on the site. On its Twitter account Wikileaks credited CloudFlare, a company that provides a web security service, for helping the organization get its site back online. Earlier this month Wikileaks...

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About those Google+ vanity URLs: Google has removed the “plus.” from their promotion

August 13, 2012
About those Google+ vanity URLs: Google has removed the “plus.” from their promotion

As we noted earlier, Google is playing around with the idea of vanity URLs on Google+, giving them out to select businesses and celebrities. Excuse me while I play Columbo for a second. The interesting thing about the URL structure shared by Google today is the fact that the “http://plus.” has disappeared, making way...

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You can now view Google+ photo albums in a slideshow and then download them in a .zip file

August 13, 2012
You can now view Google+ photo albums in a slideshow and then download them in a .zip file

One of the better features of the Google+ platform is its handling of photos. From tagging to sharing, it’s a pretty fantastic experience. Google has taken the Picasa acquisition to a whole new level with Google+ Photos and the service launched two new features today: Album slideshows and downloads. The download feature will spit...

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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason On Europe: We’re Too Pricey, We’re Missing Tech Mojo, And No One Knows Us

August 13, 2012
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason On Europe: We’re Too Pricey, We’re Missing Tech Mojo, And No One Knows Us

There was once probably a good reason for why Groupon needed to expand aggressively internationally when it did, buying up other daily deal operations, for fast, inorganic growth. But on today’s Q2 earnings call, those reasons didn’t really come up, with CEO Andrew Mason instead providing a lengthy explanation for why international, led by...

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People Get Pissed Off About OpenStack And That’s Why It Will Survive

August 13, 2012
People Get Pissed Off About OpenStack And That’s Why It Will Survive

The ranters are out in force this afternoon about Red Hat announcing the preview of its OpenStack distribution. It’s like OpenStack inserted a lightning rod into my TweeetDeck stream. OpenStack really pisses people off.  You either despise it or love it. And that’s why the open cloud effort will survive. Anything that polarizing is...

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We Just Heard An Insane Rumor About A New Business For Google … (GOOG)

August 13, 2012
We Just Heard An Insane Rumor About A New Business For Google … (GOOG)

Google Press Images What’s in the trunk? See Also Here’s The One Place Yahoo Destroyed Google Why So Many Startups Are Being Acqui-Hired CHART OF THE DAY: Here’s Something Marissa Mayer Has To Fix We just heard from a plugged-in industry source that Google is eyeing a new project: same-day delivery. This is an...

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We Just Heard An Absolutely Insane Rumor About A New Business For Google … (GOOG)

August 13, 2012
We Just Heard An Absolutely Insane Rumor About A New Business For Google … (GOOG)

Google Press Images What’s in the trunk? See Also Here’s The One Place Yahoo Destroyed Google Why So Many Startups Are Being Acqui-Hired CHART OF THE DAY: Here’s Something Marissa Mayer Has To Fix We just heard from a plugged-in industry source that Google is eyeing a new project: same-day delivery. This is an...

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These Are The Sectors Leading The Way In Mobile Commerce

August 13, 2012

Capturing the mobile consumer will likely be the secret to success for many businesses in the coming years. But the question is how? We talked to some of the top mobile ad buyers and sellers at our Mobile Advertising Conference in this summer to find out what they think is working in the space...

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